Pilatus Expands Sales and Service Network for the PC-24

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd announced today that it has formally appointed sales and service representatives for the upcoming Pilatus PC-24 twin-jet in Canada, Mexico, and Eastern Europe.

With headquarters in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Pilatus Centre Canada has been named the authorized PC-24 sales and service Center for all of Canada. Pilatus Centre Canada has been an authorized PC-12 Sales and Service Center since 1997.

Based in Monterey, Pilatus Center de Mexico will sell and service PC-24 aircraft in the country of Mexico. Pilatus Center de Mexico has been an authorized PC-12 Sales and Service Center since 2002.

J.B. Investments Ltd, located just east of Warsaw, will sell and service the PC-24 in the countries of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. J.B. has been an authorized PC-12 Sales and Service Center since 2010.

Finally, based in Pribram, Czech Republic, southwest of Prague, OK Business Aircraft has been named the authorized Pilatus PC-24 Sales and Service Center for the countries of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania. OK Business Aircraft has been an authorized PC-12 Sales and Service Center since 2010.

Markus Bucher, CEO of Pilatus Aircraft Ltd stated, “We are pleased to complete the definition of our PC-24 partner network across all of North and South America, and Eastern Europe. Our goal, along with our partners, is to provide customers around the world with the highest level of service and support. Pilatus is confident that through our Authorized Pilatus Centers we will create a customer experience, the ‘Pilatus Class’ that is unmatched in the business aviation industry.”

“The first PC-24 prototype is currently under construction at Pilatus headquarters in Stans, Switzerland,” said Oscar J. Schwenk, Chairman of Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. “That aircraft will roll out from the factory on August 1st.”

A total of three aircraft will be used in the PC-24 flight test program. Certification and first customer deliveries will occur in 2017. Pilatus will announce key launch customers and begin formally taking orders for the PC-24 at the EBACE convention in Geneva, Switzerland on May 20th, 2014.